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As incurable sports addicts, Jill and I had similar reactions when we learned our only child would be a daughter: We've been spared "the football decision." To play, or not to play? As medical science continues to explore football's inevitable head traumas, and as media headline not only that progress but also lives ruined and ended by concussions, parents ponder whether to allow their children to play the game that dominates America's sporting landscape. Barack Obama and Brett Favre have opined. Kurt Warner and Troy Aikman, too. Barring an evolution of girls/women's football, we won't face that question with our toddler. But now comes another...

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As incurable sports addicts, Jill and I had similar reactions when we learned our only child would be a daughter: We've been spared "the football decision."
To play, or not to play? As medical science continues to explore football's...

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